Goal

To run Foundry licenses through a Docker container.

Setup

In order for the container to serve licenses, you need to be able to ping the container. For Windows/Mac please follow this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39216830/how-could-i-ping-my-docker-container-from-my-host or docker/for-win#221

Using Docker Desktop the above setup is not necessary.

Usage

The container expects a license file to be named foundry_float.lic. This license file needs to be in the volume you map to /opt/rlm/licenses. Depending on the your license file details you will need to change the mac address and hostname accordingly.

docker run --mac-address 08:00:27:ef:70:d3 --hostname licenseserver -v /c/Users/admin/rlm/licenses:/opt/rlm/licenses -i -t tokejepsen/docker-foundry-rlm:latest

The first line of the output will show the IP address.

IP ADDRESS:
172.17.0.2

When inputting the license server to use in Nuke use {PORT NUMBER}@{IP ADDRESS}. If you didn't specify a port number in the license file it'll be 5053.

Restarting

Restarting the container works because the license file is temporarily store in the container until its deleted. This means you can have the license server always running even between reboots of the host machine by adding the --restart=always.

docker run --restart=always --mac-address 08:00:27:ef:70:d3 --hostname licenseserver -v /c/Users/admin/rlm/licenses:/opt/rlm/licenses -i -t tokejepsen/docker-foundry-rlm:latest